⁹ For we are fellow workmen (joint promoters, laborers together) with and for God; you are God’s ^[a]garden and vineyard and field under cultivation, [you are] God’s building.^(A)

¹⁰ According to the grace (the special endowment for my task) of God bestowed on me, like a skillful architect and master builder I laid [the] foundation, and now another [man] is building upon it. But let each [man] be careful how he builds upon it,

¹¹ For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is [already] laid, which is Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).